Saturday, September 10, 2016

JonBenet Ramsey and Mary Phafan

Friday night
NBC's Dateline had a two hour study of the facts and speculation surrounding
the Jon Benet Ramsey murder Christmas 1996, almost 20 years ago.

JonBenet is
buried at Saint James Episcopal Church Cemetery here in Marietta. I/we have visited her grave several
times. I would probably fall under
"Gawker" category.

I thought it
was very interesting that many cards, letters, notes, and little dolls were
hanging from branches of the tree that umbrellas the grave.

I remembered
once, Christmas Day I think, after viewing her grave and walking away back to
my car I passed a short young guy. He
was smiling so happy he was strutting like he was on his way to having a date
with an angle. He greeted me smiling, he had a wrapped up bouquet under one arm
and a teddy bear in the other.

Interesting
Jon Benet Ramsey is not the only underage girl that died violently in another
town, that made national news, and the real murderer may have gotten away with
it and is buried in Marietta. She is
buried in the Marietta City Cemetery.

Mary Phagan,
age 12, was murdered in the basement of Atlanta Pencil Factor April 26, 1913. On some circumstantial evidence and a lot of anti-Semitism
her Jewish supervisor was tried and convicted to be hanged. The governor changed his sentenced to life in
prison.

then some
"good old boys" from Marietta went to the state prison in
Milledgeville during the night, went into the prison opposition, took Leo Frank
and carried him back to Marietta, where he was lynched. Not many years ago it was made public the
city's elite at the time planned out the Milledgeville visit and the hanging.

As I was saying, isn't it strange two girls of similar deaths not residents of Marietta but buried in Marietta 83 years apart?